公开(公告)号：US12107592B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-01

申请号：US17864966

申请日：2022-07-14

Applicant: Socionext Inc.

Inventor： Kenneth Stephen Hunt ,  Antoine Morineau ,  Aadilhussain Maniyar

IPC: H03M1/06 ,  H03K5/24

CPC classification number: H03M1/0607 ,  H03K5/2481 ,  H03K5/249

Abstract: A comparator including: first and second input transistors connected to control signals at first and second nodes of the comparator; latch circuitry; at least one controllable offset-correction component having an input terminal and connected to control the signal at one of the first and second nodes based on an offset-correction signal provided at its input terminal; for each controllable offset-correction component, an offset correction circuit configured to provide the offset-correction signal provided at its input terminal; and control circuitry. The control circuitry controls the at least one offset-correction circuit to: control an amount by which the offset-correction signal is adjusted; and/or in a bypass operation, connect the input terminal of the at least one controllable offset-correction component to a bypass-operation reference voltage supply; and/or in a maintenance operation, control the charging-operation voltage supply and/or the bypass-operation voltage supply to control leakage of the charge stored on the holding capacitor.